I read somewhere that java can allocate memory for objects in about 12 machine instructions. It's quite impressive for me. As far as I understand one of tricks JVM using is preallocating memory in chunks. This help to minimize number of requests to operating system, which is quite expensive, I guess. But even CAS operations can cost up to 150 cycles on modern processors.

So, could anyone explain real cost of memory allocation in java and which tricks JVM uses to speed up allocation?

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